• Potion ingredients Lacewing flies are mundane flying insects whose lace-like, transparent wings are used as an ingredient in Polyjuice Potion (CS10, CS11, CS12, Pm). Read More
• Plants • Potion ingredients Lady’s mantle is a mundane plant with a yellow flower used in potion making. Read More
• Food and drinks Lamb chops are served at Hogwarts start-of-term feasts (PS7, GF13). Read More
• Common items Lanterns are a somewhat common light source in the wizarding world. Lanterns were repeatedly used for functional lighting on festive occasions including the 1994 Quidditch World Cup (GF8), the Yule Ball (GF23), Harry’s 17th birthday dinner (DH7), and Bill and Fleur’s wedding (DH8). Magical creatures also… Read More
• Wandmaking Larch is a tree which produces wand wood (Pm). Read More
• Plants • Potion ingredients A mundane plant used as a potions ingredient. Read More
• Quidditch The League Cup is won by the professional Quidditch team at the top of the British and Irish Quidditch League. The criteria for winning the Cup is being the team that has accumulated the most points at the end of the season (QA7). The League Table published in… Read More
• Potion ingredients A small non-magical worm that sucks blood. Read More
• Magical identities Someone who practices Legilimency to extract thoughts and emotions from another’s mind is called a Legilimens (OP37). Read More
• Magical objects Leprechauns, tiny vegetarian creatures resembling a little (maximum height 6 inches) green human, are able to produce a gold-like substance that vanishes after an hour or two (GF8, GF28). Read More
• Wizarding culture “Les Non-Magiques” was a French term for non-magical humans (CG). This was one of the names for Muggles mentioned by Gellert Grindelwald when he rattled off a list of such terms while speaking to the pure-blood audience in the underground auditorium in Paris (CG). Read More
• Glossary “Having a lie-in” means “sleeping in”, sleeping late. Read More
• Sports teams The Liechtenstein National Teams come from the European country of Liechtenstein. Quidditch Team mascot: augurey Their team mascot in 2014, Hans the Augurey, has his own fan club (Pm). Liechtenstein were participants at the 2014 Quidditch World Cup tournament held in Argentina’s Patagonian… Read More
• Glossary When he was serving detention, Dolores Umbridge forced Harry to write this sentence using her own magical quill. The words were instantly cut into the back of his hand and the words appeared on the paper with his own blood as the ink. Read More
• Glossary U.S.: An elevator. Ironically, the meanings of ‘lift’ and ‘elevator’ are reversed between the U.S. and the U.K.; ‘elevator’ in the U.K. refers to what in the U.S. would be called a ‘lift’ put into a shoe. Read More
• Hogwarts Lighting at Hogwarts generally comes from candles and other fires since the castle does not use electricity. Read More
• Symbols The Lightning-Struck Tower, also called simply The Tower, is the sixteenth card in the Major Acana of the Tarot. It signifies change, often abrupt or even violent. Trelawney reads the Tarot in order to divine the future. Just before the events which resulted in Dumbledore’s death atop the… Read More
• Communication Harry’s mother Lily wrote a letter to his godfather, Sirius Black, a few months before she died and it remained in his bedroom at twelve, Grimmauld Place until discovered by first Severus Snape, then by Harry Potter (DH10, DH33). Read More
• Food and drinks A common wizarding sweet, offered on the food trolley on the Hogwarts Express (PS6). Read More
• Food and drinks A drink served at the speakeasy known as The Blind Pig in 1926 New York City. Read More
• Ministry of Magic A room located in the Department of Mysteries on Level Nine of the Ministry of Magic (OP34)… Read More
• Magical artifacts The fake Moody kept various things in this magical trunk which had seven locks with seven keys. Depending on which lock you unlocked, you would see different things inside. When the first lock is opened, the trunk holds spell books. With the second lock, the trunk revealed broken Sneakoscopes,quills, and… Read More
• Glossary a.k.a. The Tube – London’s underground train system, most of which runs deep beneath street level. U.S.: subway, but just to make things interesting, a “subway” in the U.K. – in London, at any rate – is a tunnel serving as a walkway under a busy street, and nothing to… Read More
• Quidditch A long goal is a Quidditch shot made from well outside the scoring area. The Vrasta Vultures are well-known for attempting this tactic (QA8). Read More
• Diseases and healing Loser’s Lurgy is an illness suggested by Luna Lovegood. It supposedly causes a Chaser to be unable to maintain possession of the Quaffle (HBP19). When commentating during the Gryffindor v Hufflepuff match, Luna speculated that Zacharias Smith of Hufflepuff suffered from this disease, as he had… Read More
• Glossary Used to refer to people in groups, as in, “you lot”, “our lot”. Read More
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• Plants • Potion ingredients Lovage is a mundane plant and a potion ingredient used to make Confusing and Befuddlement Draughts (OP18). Read More
• Magical objects The luminous, squealing rosettes are enchanted colourful badges of ribbon, worn to show support for your Quidditch team. The rosettes shout the names of the players until the charm wears off during the next day or so (GF7, GF8). Ron, Charlie, Bill and… Read More
• Clothing For the first Quidditch match in Harry’s fifth year, Luna Lovegood, a Ravenclaw student, supported the Gryffindor Quidditch Team by wearing a hat that resembled the head of a full-grown lion (OP19). It could roar so loudly that it made people jump in the Great Hall,… Read More
• Magical objects A valuable astronomical instrument which shows the phases of the moon. Read More
• Glossary Usually referred to in the phrase “the dreaded lurgy” but which has come to mean any unspecified minor illness. The term comes from a (non-existent) highly infectious disease frequently referred to in the British 1950s – 1960s radio comedy series the Goon Show (NSOED). Read More
• Sports teams The Luxembourg National Teams are from the European country of Luxembourg. Quidditch Luxembourg is mentioned in Kennilworthy Whisp’s book Quidditch Through the Ages as a country where the players exhibit a high standard of Quidditch skill, such as strategic moves and goal-scoring ability (QA8). Although… Read More